Subject: Re: 23 NATO Allies Meet Spending Targets

Nope. Were this true he would have moved when Trump was actually President, and not waited until the supposedly-stronger-alliances-guy in Biden showed up.

Short sighted and wrong, as usual. Putin wouldn't have given up on the effect Trump was having on NATO until Trump lost the election. Putin thought his invasion of Ukraine would be over in weeks. It would be a dumb strategy to start moving troops into assault position in Belarus during the election as that would strengthen Biden and weaken Trump, and Trump was already weak enough.